Mind Quotes - Page 340

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.